drizzly

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Etymology

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From drizzle +‎ -y.

Adjective

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drizzly (comparative drizzlier, superlative drizzliest)

  1. Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.
    • 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
      Thursday, January 21, was a miserable, wet, drizzly day; the thaw started fairly rapidly and transport began to move again.
    • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times[1]:
      On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.

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